As someone who *has* been harassed at conferences before -- though not YAPC, which I've found delightful -- it's always nice to hear efforts to make a particular space more welcoming come from people who are making those efforts because it's the right thing to do. :)
I'll also drop in a link here to the Dreamwidth Diversity Statement, which contains the most exhaustive list of axes-of-diversity we (and our users) have been able to think of in four years or so:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/diversity
Likely not all applicable, but it's CC-BY-SA, so feel free to borrow liberally!
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On Mar 23, 2013, at 1:16 AM, Chris Weyl wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Rob Kinyon <rob.kinyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll merge it as soon as he removes the .html file
>> Done. That's what I get by rushing things to get home for dinner :)
>> On a slightly different note, I hope it's clear that I'm pushing this not because I feel personally uncomfortable, threatened, or harassed; or that anything like that will happen to me in Austin this year. I'm pushing this because I see it as a critical part of welcoming and building diversity -- something schwern's most excellent keynote last year motivated me to take some personal responsibility for. This policy isn't just another document, it's part of the welcome mat: how we create, honour and enforce it will say a lot about who and what we are.
>> Ok. Last serious email of the week :)
>> -Chris
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